It's easy to add a few lines of text to files on Linux, but there are tools that make it easier to add many lines. There are a number of ways to add text to files on Linux systems without having to ...

Have you ever needed to add new lines of text to an existing file in Linux, like updating a log, appending new configuration values, or saving command outputs without erasing what’s already there?

There are number of ways to join multiple lines of text and change delimiters if needed. This article shows two of the easier ways to do this and explains the commands. The paste command was developed ...

You need to package up a bunch of files, send them somewhere, and do something with them at the destination. It isn’t an uncommon scenario. The obvious answer is to create an archive — a zip or tar ...

We often write quick bash scripts and judging by the comments, half of us use bash or a similar shell to pop out quick, useful scripts, and half of us think that’s an abomination, and you should only ...

This script recursively traverses all the files in a given directory. Each file is copied with a .balance suffix, retaining all file attributes. The original is then deleted and the copy is renamed ...